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High-fidelity quantum gates require precise classical control signals, yet the analog hardware delivering these signals introduces nonlinear distortions that degrade gate performance. We demonstrate digital predistortion of an acousto-optic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Jovan Markov , Yotam Shapira , Ayelet Hasson , Meir Alon , Avraham Gross , Nitzan Akerman , Roee Ozeri

Non-adiabatic two-qubit gate proposals for trapped-ion systems offer superior performance and flexibility over adiabatic schemes at the cost of increased laser control requirements. Existing fast gate schemes are limited by single-qubit…

Quantum adiabatic algorithms are commonly analyzed through local spectral properties of an interpolating Hamiltonian, most notably the minimum energy gap. While this perspective captures an important constraint on adiabatic runtimes, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Prathamesh S. Joshi

The implementation of holonomic quantum computation is meaningful. We can effectively resist local and collective noise in the process of physical implementation by using the advantage of non-Abelian geometric phase. In this paper, we set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Yong-Sen Chen , Jing Gao , Li-Na Ji

Over the last few decades, quantum chemistry has progressed through the development of computational methods based on modern digital computers. However, these methods can hardly fulfill the exponentially-growing resource requirements when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 M. -H. Yung , J. Casanova , A. Mezzacapo , J. McClean , L. Lamata , A. Aspuru-Guzik , E. Solano

Branch-and-bound algorithms effectively solve combinatorial optimization problems, relying on the relaxation of the objective function to obtain tight lower bounds. While this is straightforward for convex objective functions, higher-order…

Current quantum computing devices have different strengths and weaknesses depending on their architectures. This means that flexible approaches to circuit design are necessary. We address this task by introducing a novel space-efficient…

We consider experimentally feasible chains of trapped ions with pseudo-spin 1/2, and find models that can potentially be used to implement error-resistant quantum computation. Similar in spirit to classical neural networks, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-20 Sibylle Braungardt , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen , Maciej Lewenstein

High-fidelity and parallel realization in scalable platforms of the two-qubit entangling gates fundamental to universal quantum computing constitutes one of the largest challenges in implementing fault-tolerant quantum computation.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Aditya Milind Kolhatkar , Karan K. Mehta

Quantum control plays an irreplaceable role in practical use of quantum computers. However, some challenges have to be overcome to find more suitable and diverse control parameters. We propose a promising and generalizable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Meng-Yun Mao , Zheng Cheng , Yan Xia , Andrzej M. Oleś , Wen-Long You

We develop circuit implementations for digital-level quantum Hamiltonian dynamics simulation algorithms suitable for implementation on a reconfigurable quantum computer, such as trapped ions. Our focus is on the co-design of a problem, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-09 Yunseong Nam , Dmitri Maslov

We introduce a counterdiabatic (CD) extension of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) for constrained portfolio optimization. By incorporating approximate adiabatic gauge potentials generated from nested commutators of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Jose Falla , Ilya Safro

We present an end-to-end pipeline for large-scale portfolio selection with cardinality constraints and experimentally demonstrate it on trapped-ion quantum processors using hardware-aware decomposition. Building on RMT-based…

Trapped ions are among the leading candidates for quantum computing technologies. Interfacing ion qubits in separate traps and interfacing ion qubits with superconducting qubits are two of the many challenges to scale up quantum computers.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 Noah Van Horne , Manas Mukherjee

Quantum computing is currently limited by the cost of two-qubit entangling operations. In order to scale up quantum processors and achieve a quantum advantage, it is crucial to economize on the power requirement of two-qubit gates, make…

The bin packing problem, a classical NP-hard combinatorial optimization challenge, has emerged as a promising candidate for quantum computing applications. In this work, we address the one-dimensional bin packing problem (1dBPP) using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ruoqian Xu , Sebastián V. Romero , Jialiang Tang , Yue Ban , Xi Chen

Digital-analog quantum computing with two-level systems is a computational paradigm that combines an analog Hamiltonian with single-qubit gates to achieve universality. We extend this framework to $d$-level systems by conjugating an analog…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Alatz Alvarez-Ahedo , Mikel Garcia de Andoin , Mikel Sanz

Variational quantum eigensolvers (VQE) are among the most promising approaches for solving electronic structure problems on near-term quantum computers. A critical challenge for VQE in practice is that one needs to strike a balance between…

The ability of quantum computers to overcome the exponential memory scaling of many-body problems is expected to transform quantum chemistry. Quantum algorithms require accurate representations of electronic states on a quantum device, but…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-04-26 Hugh G. A. Burton

High-fidelity gate implementation requires sophisticated control pulses that steer the quantum system to undergo the desired transformation. Quantum Optimal Control allows to derive these control pulses in an open-loop fashion based on…